Published May 3, 2021 | Version v1
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The six registers of the Textbook English Corpus (TEC) on Biber's (1988) Dimension 1

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  • 1. Osnabrück University

Description

This raincloud plot displays the distribution of all the texts belonging to the six main registers of the Textbook English Corpus (TEC; Le Foll, in preparation) on Biber’s (1988) Dimension 1 of General English "Involved vs. Informational language".

Created in R (R Core Team 2020) using {ggplot2} (Wickham 2016) and the {RainCloudPlot} (Allen et al., 2018) packages. Colours inspired by the suffragette mouvement (Alburez-Gutierrez, 2019).

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References

  • Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego (2019): suffrager: A feminist colour palette for R.
  • Allen, Micah, Davide Poggiali, Kirstie Whitaker, Tom Rhys Marshall & Rogier A. Kievit (2018): RainCloudPlots tutorials and codebase. Zenodo.
  • Le Foll, Elen (in preparation): Textbook English: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Language of EFL textbooks used in Secondary Schools in France, Germany and Spain.
  • R Core Team (2020): R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Manual Vienna, Austria.
  • Wickham, Hadley (2016): ggplot2: Elegant graphics for data analysis. New York: Springer.